[lojban-beginners] Re: Dots and spaces (was: Logical connectives)

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Karl Naylor <karl.org@gmail.com>:

> This raises a point I've been interested by for a while, though: I've
> don't remember seeing any discussion at all in the RG or LFB of
> spaces.  As I recall it's just assumed that spaces go between words in
> written Lojban, except where you don't need them.  It seems to me
> there's room for a more thorough treatment.  After all, Lojban has at
> least three mechanisms for signalling to the reader/listener where
> word boundaries lie: stress rules, spacing and dots.  Stress in spoken
> Lojban I believe is fully explained, but its written equivalent is
> left for the Lojbanist to figure out.  This leads to some puzzlement
> on the beginners' list as new Lojbanists begin interacting with the
> more experienced and wonder why some people drop spaces, some drop
> dots, some use explicit stress (via capitalisation) for all words,
> etc.
>
> Has this issue been discussed before my time, I wonder?  Is there any
> motion to insert discussion of spacing into the RG, or has it been
> determined that this is unnecessary?

My personal opinion is that texts are easier to
read if words are relatively short. Having a few
additional spaces doesn't hinder quick reading,
I think.

So my personal advice would be: as many word separation
as possible!

Martin